What do Principal Engineers really do at tech companies? Do they get in actual execution of project or just define high level architecture. What is the career growth for Principals like ? TC 240K
They define high level architecture, execution strategies, debug the worst problems, write code for the trickiest parts of the solution and keep the suits in check.
LinkedIn summary for CV lol
More meetings. Probably less than managers
What are they contributing to the tech organization ?
Filling up a chair at meetings so they can say they asked the engineers before they did whatever they originally wanted